Fortune and faith in old Chicago : a dual biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and seminary founder Eliza Clark Garrett /
Charles H. Cosgrove.
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xi, 306 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Newburgh beginnings -- Prosecuted and put to cost -- The great fairy land of fortunes -- Crash and conversion -- The politician -- Their separate spheres -- The founder.
"Augustus Garrett and Eliza Clark Garrett were a very influential couple in old Chicago. Augustus served two terms as mayor of Chicago. The story of his wife Eliza, the chronicle of a spiritual journey, reflects the struggles of sincere, pious women to come to terms with tragedy in an age when most people attributed every unhappy event as divinely determined"--
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Garrett, Augustus, 1801-1848. Garrett, Eliza Clark, 1805-1855.
Garrett Biblical Institute--History.
Mayors--Illinois--Chicago--Biography. Women philanthropists--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.